Fostering community hospital research

Fostering reproducible fMRI research

F unctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures neural activity indirectly via the changes in the blood-oxygenation-leveldependent (BOLD) signal. It has been widely used by cognitive neuroscientists and psychologists to examine the neural correlates of higher cognitive functions in humans, such as decision-making, emotion regulation, social interactions and consciousness. Over the years,...

Fostering success at community colleges.

119 COVER Tens of thousands of books appear in this photograph of the interior of the sculpture Idiom, by Matej Krén. On page 176, Michel et al. describe an even larger collection: a 5.2-million-book corpus containing 4% of all books ever published. Statistical analysis of this corpus makes it possible to study cultural trends quantitatively.

Fostering Systems Research in Europe

The Computer Systems discipline (which encompasses the sub-areas of operating systems, distributed, embedded, real time and pervasive systems) constitutes a central pillar of computer science. Systems research is the scientific study, analysis, modeling and engineering of effective software platforms. Its challenge is to provide dependable, powerful, performant, secure and scalable solutions wi...

Fostering a Community of Student Scholars

s are listed alphabetically by the presenter’s last name. Footnotes: Crowdsourcing Hikers to Preserve and Maintain our Trails Dong-Jin Ahn, Senior, Informatics Kevin Merritt, Senior, Informatics Benjamin Fields, Senior, Informatics Mentor: Batya Friedman, Information School Mentor: David Hendry, Information School Over the last two years over 40 million young adults went on hikes all over the U...

Fostering a Learning Community in MOOCs